Color and Master Studies

Glenn Hirsch

Color and Style

On the left the studies (copies);

On the right,student self-portrait in the style of the master

From the top down:

•Max Beckmann

•Alexei Jawlensky

•Amedeo Modigliani

•Diego Rivera

A master study allows you the chance to try a different style

(Student study of Maurice Quentin de Latour)

A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat

(Student study of David Park)

A master study allows you to confront an artist “ancestor.”

(Student study of Kathe Kollwitz)

(Student study of Johannes Vermeer)

(Student study of Orozco)

(Student study of Lucien Freud)

(Student study of Paul Gauguin)

“Quotations” in Art History

Michelangelo Inspired by Michelangelo (Angela Pryor )

Here are a series of reclining goddesses.

Each artist recalls the art that has gone before.

Each artistin a ‘dialog’ with the past.

This Renaissance painting recalls Roman and Greek traditions.(Titian, late 17th century, Venus of Urbino)

And here is a point of view by one of the few celebrated women painters of the same era as the previous slide.

(Artemisia Gentileschi , late 16th century, Cleopatra)

In this wildly controversial painting, Paul Gauguin satirizes the high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.

(Paul Gauguin, late 19th century)

In this wildly controversial painting, Manet satirizes the high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.

(Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863)

In this wildly controversial painting, Mel Ramos (c.1960) satirizes the high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.

Master Study Assignment

(a) You paint an exact copy of a master’s painting, paying close

attention to color and composition

(b) Then, you then do a second painting using your own subject but in

the master’s style (color palette and brush style)

(c) bring both paintings back to your next class

(Student study and response: Karl Schmidt-Rotluff)

(Student master study and 3 responses: Georgia O’Keefe, oil)

(Student master study and response: Emile Nolde)

(Student master study and response: Karl Schimidt-Rotluff)

(Student master study and response: Andrew Wyeth)

(Student master study and response: John Singer Sargent)

(Student master study and response: Jenny Saville)

(Student master study and response: John Lundin)